HOS 1:1
The word of the Lord which came to Hosea the son of
Beeri, during the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and
Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the days of
Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
HOS 1:2 When the Lord first spoke through
Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, "Go, take to yourself
a wife of harlotry, and have children of harlotry;
for the land commits flagrant harlotry, forsaking
the Lord."
HOS 1:3 So he went and took Gomer the
daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him
a son.
HOS 1:4 And the Lord said to him, "Name him
Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will punish
the house of Jehu for the bloodshed of Jezreel, and
I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of
Israel.
HOS 1:5 "And it will come about on that day,
that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of
Jezreel."
HOS 1:6 Then she conceived again and gave
birth to a daughter. And the Lord said to him, "Name
her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion
on the house of Israel, that I should ever forgive
them.
HOS 1:7 "But I will have compassion on the
house of Judah and deliver them by the Lord their
God, and will not deliver them by bow, sword,
battle, horses, or horsemen."
HOS 1:8 When she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she
conceived and gave birth to a son.
HOS 1:9 And the Lord said, "Name him Lo-ammi,
for you are not My people and I am not your God."
HOS 1:10 Yet the number of the sons of Israel
Will be like the sand of the sea, Which cannot be
measured or numbered; And it will come about that,
in the place Where it is said to them, "You are not
My people," It will be said to them, "You are the
sons of the living God."
HOS 1:11 And the sons of Judah and the sons
of Israel will be gathered together, And they will
appoint for themselves one leader, And they will go
up from the land, For great will be the day of
Jezreel.
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HOS 2:1
Say to your brothers, "Ammi," and to your sisters, "Ruhamah."
HOS 2:2 "Contend with your mother, contend,
For she is not my wife, and I am not her husband;
And let her put away her harlotry from her face, And
her adultery from between her breasts,
HOS 2:3 Lest I strip her naked And expose her
as on the day when she was born. I will also make
her like a wilderness, Make her like desert land,
And slay her with thirst.
HOS 2:4 "Also, I will have no compassion on
her children, Because they are children of harlotry.
HOS 2:5 "For their mother has played the
harlot; She who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, 'I will go after my lovers, Who give
me my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, my
oil and my drink.'
HOS 2:6 "Therefore, behold, I will hedge up
her way with thorns, And I will build a wall against
her so that she cannot find her paths.
HOS 2:7 "And she will pursue her lovers, but
she will not overtake them; And she will seek them,
but will not find them. Then she will say, 'I will
go back to my first husband, For it was better for
me then than now!'
HOS 2:8 "For she does not know that it was I
who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil,
And lavished on her silver and gold, Which they used
for Baal.
HOS 2:9 "Therefore, I will take back My grain
at harvest time And My new wine in its season. I
will also take away My wool and My flax Given to
cover her nakedness.
HOS 2:10 "And then I will uncover her
lewdness In the sight of her lovers, And no one will
rescue her out of My hand.
HOS 2:11 "I will also put an end to all her
gaiety, Her feasts, her new moons, her sabbaths, And
all her festal assemblies.
HOS 2:12 "And I will destroy her vines and
fig trees, Of which she said, 'These are my wages
Which my lovers have given me.' And I will make them
a forest, And the beasts of the field will devour
them.
HOS 2:13 "And I will punish her for the days
of the Baals When she used to offer sacrifices to
them And adorn herself with her earrings and
jewelry, And follow her lovers, so that she forgot
Me," declares the Lord.
HOS 2:14 "Therefore, behold, I will allure
her, Bring her into the wilderness, And speak kindly
to her.
HOS 2:15 "Then I will give her her vineyards
from there, And the valley of Achor as a door of
hope. And she will sing there as in the days of her
youth, As in the day when she came up from the land
of Egypt.
HOS 2:16 "And it will come about in that
day," declares the Lord, "That you will call Me Ishi
And will no longer call Me Baali.
HOS 2:17 "For I will remove the names of the
Baals from her mouth, So that they will be mentioned
by their names no more.
HOS 2:18 "In that day I will also make a
covenant for them With the beasts of the field, The
birds of the sky, And the creeping things of the
ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and
war from the land, And will make them lie down in
safety.
HOS 2:19 "And I will betroth you to Me
forever; Yes, I will betroth you to Me in
righteousness and in justice, In lovingkindness and
in compassion,
HOS 2:20 And I will betroth you to Me in
faithfulness. Then you will know the Lord.
HOS 2:21 "And it will come about in that day
that I will respond," declares the Lord. I will
respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the
earth,
HOS 2:22 And the earth will respond to the
grain, to the new wine, and to the oil, And they
will respond to Jezreel.
HOS 2:23 "And I will sow her for Myself in
the land. I will also have compassion on her who had
not obtained compassion, And I will say to those who
were not My people, 'You are My people!' And they
will say, 'Thou art my God!'"
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HOS 3:1
Then the Lord said to me, "Go again, love a woman
who is loved by her husband, yet an adulteress, even
as the Lord loves the sons of Israel, though they
turn to other gods and love raisin cakes."
HOS 3:2 So I bought her for myself for
fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of
barley.
HOS 3:3 Then I said to her, "You shall stay
with me for many days. You shall not play the
harlot, nor shall you have a man; so I will also be
toward you."
HOS 3:4 For the sons of Israel will remain
for many days without king or prince, without
sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or
household idols.
HOS 3:5 Afterward the sons of Israel will
return and seek the Lord their God and David their
king; and they will come trembling to the Lord and
to His goodness in the last days.
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HOS 4:1
Listen to the word of the Lord, O sons of Israel,
For the Lord has a case against the inhabitants of
the land, Because there is no faithfulness or
kindness Or knowledge of God in the land.
HOS 4:2 There is swearing, deception, murder,
stealing, and adultery. They employ violence, so
that bloodshed follows bloodshed.
HOS 4:3 Therefore the land mourns, And
everyone who lives in it languishes Along with the
beasts of the field and the birds of the sky; And
also the fish of the sea disappear.
HOS 4:4 Yet let no one find fault, and let
none offer reproof; For your people are like those
who contend with the priest.
HOS 4:5 So you will stumble by day, And the
prophet also will stumble with you by night; And I
will destroy your mother.
HOS 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of
knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I
also will reject you from being My priest. Since you
have forgotten the law of your God, I also will
forget your children.
HOS 4:7 The more they multiplied, the more
they sinned against Me; I will change their glory
into shame.
HOS 4:8 They feed on the sin of My people,
And direct their desire toward their iniquity.
HOS 4:9 And it will be, like people, like
priest; So I will punish them for their ways, And
repay them for their deeds.
HOS 4:10 And they will eat, but not have
enough; They will play the harlot, but not increase,
Because they have stopped giving heed to the Lord.
HOS 4:11 Harlotry, wine, and new wine take
away the understanding.
HOS 4:12 My people consult their wooden idol,
and their diviner's wand informs them; For a spirit
of harlotry has led them astray, And they have
played the harlot, departing from their God.
HOS 4:13 They offer sacrifices on the tops of
the mountains And burn incense on the hills, Under
oak, poplar, and terebinth, Because their shade is
pleasant. Therefore your daughters play the harlot,
And your brides commit adultery.
HOS 4:14 I will not punish your daughters
when they play the harlot Or your brides when they
commit adultery, For the men themselves go apart
with harlots And offer sacrifices with temple
prostitutes; So the people without understanding are
ruined.
HOS 4:15 Though you, Israel, play the harlot,
Do not let Judah become guilty; Also do not go to
Gilgal, Or go up to Beth-aven, And take the oath:
"As the Lord lives!"
HOS 4:16 Since Israel is stubborn Like a
stubborn heifer, Can the Lord now pasture them Like
a lamb in a large field?
HOS 4:17 Ephraim is joined to idols; Let him
alone.
HOS 4:18 Their liquor gone, They play the
harlot continually; Their rulers dearly love shame.
HOS 4:19 The wind wraps them in its wings,
And they will be ashamed because of their
sacrifices.
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HOS 5:1
Hear this, O priests! Give heed, O house of Israel!
Listen, O house of the king! For the judgment
applies to you, For you have been a snare at Mizpah,
And a net spread out on Tabor.
HOS 5:2 And the revolters have gone deep in
depravity, But I will chastise all of them.
HOS 5:3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not
hidden from Me; For now, O Ephraim, you have played
the harlot, Israel has defiled itself.
HOS 5:4 Their deeds will not allow them To
return to their God. For a spirit of harlotry is
within them, And they do not know the Lord.
HOS 5:5 Moreover, the pride of Israel
testifies against him, And Israel and Ephraim
stumble in their iniquity; Judah also has stumbled
with them.
HOS 5:6 They will go with their flocks and
herds To seek the Lord, but they will not find Him;
He has withdrawn from them.
HOS 5:7 They have dealt treacherously against
the Lord, For they have borne illegitimate children.
Now the new moon will devour them with their land.
HOS 5:8 Blow the horn in Gibeah, The trumpet
in Ramah. Sound an alarm at Beth-aven: "Behind you,
Benjamin!"
HOS 5:9 Ephraim will become a desolation in
the day of rebuke; Among the tribes of Israel I
declare what is sure.
HOS 5:10 The princes of Judah have become
like those who move a boundary; On them I will pour
out My wrath like water.
HOS 5:11 Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in
judgment, Because he was determined to follow man's
command.
HOS 5:12 Therefore I am like a moth to
Ephraim, And like rottenness to the house of Judah.
HOS 5:13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, And
Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria And
sent to King Jareb. But he is unable to heal you, Or
to cure you of your wound.
HOS 5:14 For I will be like a lion to
Ephraim, And like a young lion to the house of
Judah. I, even I, will tear to pieces and go away, I
will carry away, and there will be none to deliver.
HOS 5:15 I will go away and return to My
place Until they acknowledge their guilt and seek My
face; In their affliction they will earnestly seek
Me.
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HOS 6:1
"Come, let us return to the Lord. For He has torn
us, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He
will bandage us.
HOS 6:2 "He will revive us after two days; He
will raise us up on the third day That we may live
before Him.
HOS 6:3 "So let us know, let us press on to
know the Lord. His going forth is as certain as the
dawn; And He will come to us like the rain, Like the
spring rain watering the earth."
HOS 6:4 What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?
What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty
is like a morning cloud, And like the dew which goes
away early.
HOS 6:5 Therefore I have hewn them in pieces
by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of
My mouth; And the judgments on you are like the
light that goes forth.
HOS 6:6 For I delight in loyalty rather than
sacrifice, And in the knowledge of God rather than
burnt offerings.
HOS 6:7 But like Adam they have transgressed
the covenant; There they have dealt treacherously
against Me.
HOS 6:8 Gilead is a city of wrongdoers,
Tracked with bloody footprints.
HOS 6:9 And as raiders wait for a man, So a
band of priests murder on the way to Shechem; Surely
they have committed crime.
HOS 6:10 In the house of Israel I have seen a
horrible thing; Ephraim's harlotry is there, Israel
has defiled itself.
HOS 6:11 Also, O Judah, there is a harvest
appointed for you, When I restore the fortunes of My
people.
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HOS 7:1
When I would heal Israel, The iniquity of Ephraim is
uncovered, And the evil deeds of Samaria, For they
deal falsely; The thief enters in, Bandits raid
outside,
HOS 7:2 And they do not consider in their
hearts That I remember all their wickedness. Now
their deeds are all around them; They are before My
face.
HOS 7:3 With their wickedness they make the
king glad, And the princes with their lies.
HOS 7:4 They are all adulterers Like an oven
heated by the baker, Who ceases to stir up the fire
From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
HOS 7:5 On the day of our king, the princes
became sick with the heat of wine; He stretched out
his hand with scoffers,
HOS 7:6 For their hearts are like an oven As
they approach their plotting; Their anger smolders
all night, In the morning it burns like a flaming
fire.
HOS 7:7 All of them are hot like an oven, And
they consume their rulers; All their kings have
fallen. None of them calls on Me.
HOS 7:8 Ephraim mixes himself with the
nations; Ephraim has become a cake not turned.
HOS 7:9 Strangers devour his strength, Yet he
does not know it; Gray hairs also are sprinkled on
him, Yet he does not know it.
HOS 7:10 Though the pride of Israel testifies
against him, Yet they have neither returned to the
Lord their God, Nor have they sought Him, for all
this.
HOS 7:11 So Ephraim has become like a silly
dove, without sense; They call to Egypt, they go to
Assyria.
HOS 7:12 When they go, I will spread My net
over them; I will bring them down like the birds of
the sky. I will chastise them in accordance with the
proclamation to their assembly.
HOS 7:13 Woe to them, for they have strayed
from Me! Destruction is theirs, for they have
rebelled against Me! I would redeem them, but they
speak lies against Me.
HOS 7:14 And they do not cry to Me from their
heart When they wail on their beds; For the sake of
grain and new wine they assemble themselves, They
turn away from Me.
HOS 7:15 Although I trained and strengthened
their arms, Yet they devise evil against Me.
HOS 7:16 They turn, but not upward, They are
like a deceitful bow; Their princes will fall by the
sword Because of the insolence of their tongue. This
will be their derision in the land of Egypt.
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HOS 8:1
Put the trumpet to your lips! Like an eagle the
enemy comes against the house of the Lord, Because
they have transgressed My covenant, And rebelled
against My law.
HOS 8:2 They cry out to Me, "My God, we of
Israel know Thee!"
HOS 8:3 Israel has rejected the good; The
enemy will pursue him.
HOS 8:4 They have set up kings, but not by
Me; They have appointed princes, but I did not know
it. With their silver and gold they have made idols
for themselves, That they might be cut off.
HOS 8:5 He has rejected your calf, O Samaria,
saying, "My anger burns against them!" How long will
they be incapable of innocence?
HOS 8:6 For from Israel is even this! A
craftsman made it, so it is not God; Surely the calf
of Samaria will be broken to pieces.
HOS 8:7 For they sow the wind, And they reap
the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; It
yields no grain. Should it yield, strangers would
swallow it up.
HOS 8:8 Israel is swallowed up; They are now
among the nations Like a vessel in which no one
delights.
HOS 8:9 For they have gone up to Assyria,
Like a wild donkey all alone; Ephraim has hired
lovers.
HOS 8:10 Even though they hire allies among
the nations, Now I will gather them up; And they
will begin to diminish Because of the burden of the
king of princes.
HOS 8:11 Since Ephraim has multiplied altars
for sin, They have become altars of sinning for him.
HOS 8:12 Though I wrote for him ten thousand
precepts of My law, They are regarded as a strange
thing.
HOS 8:13 As for My sacrificial gifts, They
sacrifice the flesh and eat it, But the Lord has
taken no delight in them. Now He will remember their
iniquity, And punish them for their sins; They will
return to Egypt.
HOS 8:14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker
and built palaces; And Judah has multiplied
fortified cities, But I will send a fire on its
cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings.
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HOS 9:1
Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the
nations! For you have played the harlot, forsaking
your God. You have loved harlots' earnings on every
threshing floor.
HOS 9:2 Threshing floor and wine press will
not feed them, And the new wine will fail them.
HOS 9:3 They will not remain in the Lord's
land, But Ephraim will return to Egypt, And in
Assyria they will eat unclean food.
HOS 9:4 They will not pour out libations of
wine to the Lord, Their sacrifices will not please
Him. Their bread will be like mourners' bread; All
who eat of it will be defiled, For their bread will
be for themselves alone; It will not enter the house
of the Lord.
HOS 9:5 What will you do on the day of the
appointed festival And on the day of the feast of
the Lord?
HOS 9:6 For behold, they will go because of
destruction; Egypt will gather them up, Memphis will
bury them. Weeds will take over their treasures of
silver; Thorns will be in their tents.
HOS 9:7 The days of punishment have come, The
days of retribution have come; Let Israel know this!
The prophet is a fool, The inspired man is demented,
Because of the grossness of your iniquity, And
because your hostility is so great.
HOS 9:8 Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a
prophet; Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all
his ways, And there is only hostility in the house
of his God.
HOS 9:9 They have gone deep in depravity As
in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their
iniquity, He will punish their sins.
HOS 9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the
wilderness; I saw your forefathers as the earliest
fruit on the fig tree in its first season. But they
came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame,
And they became as detestable as that which they
loved.
HOS 9:11 As for Ephraim, their glory will fly
away like a bird - - No birth, no pregnancy, and no
conception!
HOS 9:12 Though they bring up their children,
Yet I will bereave them until not a man is left.
Yes, woe to them indeed when I depart from them!
HOS 9:13 Ephraim, as I have seen, Is planted
in a pleasant meadow like Tyre; But Ephraim will
bring out his children for slaughter.
HOS 9:14 Give them, O Lord - - what wilt Thou
give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
HOS 9:15 All their evil is at Gilgal; Indeed,
I came to hate them there! Because of the wickedness
of their deeds I will drive them out of My house! I
will love them no more; All their princes are
rebels.
HOS 9:16 Ephraim is stricken, their root is
dried up, They will bear no fruit. Even though they
bear children, I will slay the precious ones of
their womb.
HOS 9:17 My God will cast them away Because
they have not listened to Him; And they will be
wanderers among the nations.
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HOS 10:1
Israel is a luxuriant vine; He produces fruit for
himself. The more his fruit, The more altars he
made; The richer his land, The better he made the
sacred pillars.
HOS 10:2 Their heart is faithless; Now they
must bear their guilt. The Lord will break down
their altars And destroy their sacred pillars.
HOS 10:3 Surely now they will say, "We have
no king, For we do not revere the Lord. As for the
king, what can he do for us?"
HOS 10:4 They speak mere words, With
worthless oaths they make covenants; And judgment
sprouts like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the
field.
HOS 10:5 The inhabitants of Samaria will fear
For the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will
mourn for it, And its idolatrous priests will cry
out over it, Over its glory, since it has departed
from it.
HOS 10:6 The thing itself will be carried to
Assyria As tribute to King Jareb; Ephraim will be
seized with shame, And Israel will be ashamed of its
own counsel.
HOS 10:7 Samaria will be cut off with her
king, Like a stick on the surface of the water.
HOS 10:8 Also the high places of Aven, the
sin of Israel, will be destroyed; Thorn and thistle
will grow on their altars, Then they will say to the
mountains, "Cover us!" And to the hills, "Fall on
us!"
HOS 10:9 From the days of Gibeah you have
sinned, O Israel; There they stand! Will not the
battle against the sons of iniquity overtake them in
Gibeah?
HOS 10:10 When it is My desire, I will
chastise them; And the peoples will be gathered
against them When they are bound for their double
guilt.
HOS 10:11 And Ephraim is a trained heifer
that loves to thresh, But I will come over her fair
neck with a yoke; I will harness Ephraim, Judah will
plow, Jacob will harrow for himself.
HOS 10:12 Sow with a view to righteousness,
Reap in accordance with kindness; Break up your
fallow ground, For it is time to seek the Lord Until
He comes to rain righteousness on you.
HOS 10:13 You have plowed wickedness, you
have reaped injustice, You have eaten the fruit of
lies. Because you have trusted in your way, in your
numerous warriors,
HOS 10:14 Therefore, a tumult will arise
among your people, And all your fortresses will be
destroyed, As Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the
day of battle, When mothers were dashed in pieces
with their children.
HOS 10:15 Thus it will be done to you at
Bethel because of your great wickedness. At dawn the
king of Israel will be completely cut off.
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HOS 11:1
When Israel was a youth I loved him, And out of
Egypt I called My son.
HOS 11:2 The more they called them, The more
they went from them; They kept sacrificing to the
Baals And burning incense to idols.
HOS 11:3 Yet it is I who taught Ephraim to
walk, I took them in My arms; But they did not know
that I healed them.
HOS 11:4 I led them with cords of a man, with
bonds of love, And I became to them as one who lifts
the yoke from their jaws; And I bent down and fed
them.
HOS 11:5 They will not return to the land of
Egypt; But Assyria - - he will be their king,
Because they refused to return to Me.
HOS 11:6 And the sword will whirl against
their cities, And will demolish their gate bars And
consume them because of their counsels.
HOS 11:7 So My people are bent on turning
from Me. Though they call them to the One on high,
None at all exalts Him.
HOS 11:8 How can I give you up, O Ephraim?
How can I surrender you, O Israel? How can I make
you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My
heart is turned over within Me, All My compassions
are kindled.
HOS 11:9 I will not execute My fierce anger;
I will not destroy Ephraim again. For I am God and
not man, the Holy One in your midst, And I will not
come in wrath.
HOS 11:10 They will walk after the Lord, He
will roar like a lion; Indeed He will roar, And His
sons will come trembling from the west.
HOS 11:11 They will come trembling like birds
from Egypt, And like doves from the land of Assyria;
And I will settle them in their houses, declares the
Lord.
HOS 11:12 Ephraim surrounds Me with lies, And
the house of Israel with deceit; Judah is also
unruly against God, Even against the Holy One who is
faithful.
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HOS 12:1
Ephraim feeds on wind, And pursues the east wind
continually; He multiplies lies and violence.
Moreover, he makes a covenant with Assyria, And oil
is carried to Egypt.
HOS 12:2 The Lord also has a dispute with
Judah, And will punish Jacob according to his ways;
He will repay him according to his deeds.
HOS 12:3 In the womb he took his brother by
the heel, And in his maturity he contended with God.
HOS 12:4 Yes, he wrestled with the angel and
prevailed; He wept and sought His favor. He found
Him at Bethel, And there He spoke with us,
HOS 12:5 Even the Lord, the God of hosts; The
Lord is His name.
HOS 12:6 Therefore, return to your God,
Observe kindness and justice, And wait for your God
continually.
HOS 12:7 A merchant, in whose hands are false
balances, He loves to oppress.
HOS 12:8 And Ephraim said, "Surely I have
become rich, I have found wealth for myself; In all
my labors they will find in me No iniquity, which
would be sin."
HOS 12:9 But I have been the Lord your God
since the land of Egypt; I will make you live in
tents again, As in the days of the appointed
festival.
HOS 12:10 I have also spoken to the prophets,
And I gave numerous visions; And through the
prophets I gave parables.
HOS 12:11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? Surely
they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls,
Yes, their altars are like the stone heaps Beside
the furrows of the field.
HOS 12:12 Now Jacob fled to the land of Aram,
And Israel worked for a wife, And for a wife he kept
sheep.
HOS 12:13 But by a prophet the Lord brought
Israel from Egypt, And by a prophet he was kept.
HOS 12:14 Ephraim has provoked to bitter
anger; So his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him,
And bring back his reproach to him.
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HOS 13:1
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted
himself in Israel, But through Baal he did wrong and
died.
HOS 13:2 And now they sin more and more, And
make for themselves molten images, Idols skillfully
made from their silver, All of them the work of
craftsmen. They say of them, "Let the men who
sacrifice kiss the calves!"
HOS 13:3 Therefore, they will be like the
morning cloud, And like dew which soon disappears,
Like chaff which is blown away from the threshing
floor, And like smoke from a chimney.
HOS 13:4 Yet I have been the Lord your God
Since the land of Egypt; And you were not to know
any god except Me, For there is no savior besides
Me.
HOS 13:5 I cared for you in the wilderness,
In the land of drought.
HOS 13:6 As they had their pasture, they
became satisfied, And being satisfied, their heart
became proud; Therefore, they forgot Me.
HOS 13:7 So I will be like a lion to them;
Like a leopard I will lie in wait by the wayside.
HOS 13:8 I will encounter them like a bear
robbed of her cubs, And I will tear open their
chests; There I will also devour them like a
lioness, As a wild beast would tear them.
HOS 13:9 It is your destruction, O Israel,
That you are against Me, against your help.
HOS 13:10 Where now is your king That he may
save you in all your cities, And your judges of whom
you requested, "Give me a king and princes"?
HOS 13:11 I gave you a king in My anger, And
took him away in My wrath.
HOS 13:12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound
up; His sin is stored up.
HOS 13:13 The pains of childbirth come upon
him; He is not a wise son, For it is not the time
that he should delay at the opening of the womb.
HOS 13:14 Shall I ransom them from the power
of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from death? O Death,
where are your thorns? O Sheol, where is your sting?
Compassion will be hidden from My sight.
HOS 13:15 Though he flourishes among the
reeds, An east wind will come, The wind of the Lord
coming up from the wilderness; And his fountain will
become dry, And his spring will be dried up; It will
plunder his treasury of every precious article.
HOS 13:16 Samaria will be held guilty, For
she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by
the sword, Their little ones will be dashed in
pieces, And their pregnant women will be ripped
open.
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HOS 14:1
Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, For you have
stumbled because of your iniquity.
HOS 14:2 Take words with you and return to
the Lord. Say to Him, "Take away all iniquity, And
receive us graciously, That we may present the fruit
of our lips.
HOS 14:3 "Assyria will not save us, We will
not ride on horses; Nor will we say again, 'Our
god,' To the work of our hands; For in Thee the
orphan finds mercy."
HOS 14:4 I will heal their apostasy, I will
love them freely, For My anger has turned away from
them.
HOS 14:5 I will be like the dew to Israel; He
will blossom like the lily, And he will take root
like the cedars of Lebanon.
HOS 14:6 His shoots will sprout, And his
beauty will be like the olive tree, And his
fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.
HOS 14:7 Those who live in his shadow Will
again raise grain, And they will blossom like the
vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.
HOS 14:8 O Ephraim, what more have I to do
with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I
am like a luxuriant cypress; From Me comes your
fruit.
HOS 14:9 Whoever is wise, let him understand
these things; Whoever is discerning, let him know
them. For the ways of the Lord are right, And the
righteous will walk in them, But transgressors will
stumble in them.
